Jane Rogoyska

JANE ROGOYSKA is the author of Surviving Katyń (Oneworld, 2021), about the 1940 massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war by the Soviet secret police (winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize, 2022; longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize, 2022; Second Prize –winner of the Pilecki International Book Award, 2022). Her first book, Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa (Jonathan Cape, 2013), charts the life of the first female photojournalist to be killed on the front line of battle during the Spanish Civil War. She has collaborated on related projects in radio, film, theatre and photography, including the documentary Still Here: A Polish Odyssey (2018), which she wrote and presented for BBC Radio 4.